SC Progressive Network launches Modjeska Simkins School for Human Rights
To preserve the fighting spirit of Modjeska Monteith Simkins, the SC Progressive Network is establishing a school to teach a new generation of activists the skills to be effective leaders in their...
View ArticleRemembering Modjeska
SC Progressive Network Director Brett Bursey wrote this tribute to his mentor, Modjeska Monteith Simkins, upon the occasion of her death. It ran in the May 1992 issue of POINT, four years before the...
View ArticleYou’re invited to celebrate the late, great Modjeska Simkins at a birthday...
Since moving its offices into 2025 Marion St., the historic home of Modjeska Simkins, the SC Progressive Network has thrown a party in her honor on her birthday, Dec. 5. Modjeska lived in the home for...
View ArticleWhat did activist Modjeska Simkins think about the Confederate flag flying on...
You might be surprised. SC Progressive Network Director Brett Bursey talks about the long-running debate he had with his mentor about the flag, which came off the dome in 2000 — and relocated to a more...
View ArticleA look back at three weeks that changed South Carolina
The racially motivated tragedy in Charleston’s Emanuel Church ignited a renewed resolve to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s State House grounds, something the SC Progressive Network...
View ArticleNetwork profiles three extraordinary SC women
In 2014, the SC Progressive Network was awarded a grant from the Richland County Conservation Commission to produce a booklet about Modjeska Monteith Simkins. It was distributed free to readers in the...
View ArticleSC Progressive Network launches Modjeska Simkins School for Human Rights
To preserve the fighting spirit of Modjeska Monteith Simkins, the SC Progressive Network is establishing a school to teach a new generation of activists the skills to be effective leaders in their...
View ArticleRemembering Modjeska
SC Progressive Network Director Brett Bursey wrote this tribute to his mentor, Modjeska Monteith Simkins, upon the occasion of her death. It ran in the May 1992 issue of POINT, four years before the...
View ArticleYou’re invited to celebrate the late, great Modjeska Simkins at a birthday...
Since moving its offices into 2025 Marion St., the historic home of Modjeska Simkins, the SC Progressive Network has thrown a party in her honor on her birthday, Dec. 5. Modjeska lived in the home for...
View ArticleWhat did activist Modjeska Simkins think about the Confederate flag flying on...
You might be surprised. SC Progressive Network Director Brett Bursey talks about the long-running debate he had with his mentor about the flag, which came off the dome in 2000 — and relocated to a more...
View ArticleA look back at three weeks that changed South Carolina
The racially motivated tragedy in Charleston’s Emanuel Church ignited a renewed resolve to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s State House grounds, something the SC Progressive Network...
View ArticleNetwork profiles three extraordinary SC women
In 2014, the SC Progressive Network was awarded a grant from the Richland County Conservation Commission to produce a booklet about Modjeska Monteith Simkins. It was distributed free to readers in the...
View ArticleBobby Donaldson: “The legacy of Modjeska Simkins is not dead”
In 1938, just days before her 39th birthday, Modjeska Simkins drew up plans for her own funeral. “For reasons known only to myself,” she wrote directives for a simple ceremony to be carried out “in the...
View ArticleWhat was the secret plan that sparked a civil rights movement?
As part of the Modjeska Simkins School’s Sunday Social series, on April 28, 4-6pm at 2015 Marion St. Post & Courier columnist Brian Hicks will talk about his latest book, In Darkest South Carolina:...
View ArticleSC Progressive Network launches Modjeska Simkins School for Human Rights
To preserve the fighting spirit of Modjeska Monteith Simkins, the SC Progressive Network is establishing a school to teach a new generation of activists the skills to be effective leaders in their...
View ArticleRemembering Modjeska
SC Progressive Network Director Brett Bursey wrote this tribute to his mentor, Modjeska Monteith Simkins, upon the occasion of her death. It ran in the May 1992 issue of POINT, four years before the...
View ArticleYou’re invited to celebrate the late, great Modjeska Simkins at a birthday...
Since moving its offices into 2025 Marion St., the historic home of Modjeska Simkins, the SC Progressive Network has thrown a party in her honor on her birthday, Dec. 5. Modjeska lived in the home for...
View ArticleWhat did activist Modjeska Simkins think about the Confederate flag flying on...
You might be surprised. SC Progressive Network Director Brett Bursey talks about the long-running debate he had with his mentor about the flag, which came off the dome in 2000 — and relocated to a more...
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